The Refugee Response Index Country Report from the pilot study conducted in Costa Rica is now available to download. The Refugee Response Index is a civil society led initiative designed to assess...
Costa Rica + 3 more
Costa Rica + 3 more
The Refugee Response Index Country Report from the pilot study conducted in Costa Rica is now available to download. The Refugee Response Index is a civil society led initiative designed to assess...
Refugee Response Index methodology published DARA is pleased to share the Refugee Response Index (RRI) Guidebook and Questionnaire. You can download the RRI using the link below. Refugee Response...
Executive Summary The review: The Real Time Response Review (the review) was commissioned jointly by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) and Swiss Solidarity (SwS) to learn lessons from Phase I...
South Sudan + 1 more
Abstract This independent evaluation covers the 2011-2015 support provided by the European Commission (ECHO) in relation to the humanitarian crises in Sudan and South Sudan. The evaluation found that...
Background study for the Disaster Response Dialogue Conference Manila, Philippines, October 2014 Better cooperation between international and local actors, especially the government, is necessary to...
Evaluation of WFP’s food and nutrition support and strengthening resilience in Somalia. DARA conducted an operations evaluation for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Somalia. For over two decades...
Iran + 2 more
Evaluation of WFP’s food assistance and education incentive support for Afghan and Iraqi refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran. DARA conducted an Operation Evaluation for the World Food Programme...
At no time in history has there been such need for broad, international action to provide effective humanitarian aid to millions of people suffering from crises. In 2014, the world experienced a...
The Listen and Learn project, a joint DARA/Keystone initiative funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, aimed to improve the accountability of aid efforts in Haiti and provide a model for greater...
World + 5 more
Evaluation Report April 2014 Despite overall awareness of the need to invest efforts in increasing Disaster Risk Management (DRM) among vulnerable country governments and the international aid...
European Union (EU) Member States, the European Commission and the European Parliament reached agreement on the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid in 2007. It provides a strong policy framework...
To mark its 25th anniversary, the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), in collaboration with DARA, hosted three dialogues on humanitarian aid effectiveness in October and...
Niger + 5 more
THE CHALLENGE Disasters often grip the imagination, particularly those that are of high intensity and low recurrence, such as the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti or the 2011...
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IntroductIon LE DÉFI Les catastrophes marquent souvent les esprits, particulièrement lorsqu’elles sont d’une grande intensité et peu récurrentes, comme le tsunami de 2004 dans l’océan Indien, le...
New language has entered the humanitarian lexicon. One of the latest additions is the term “risk management”, which has increasingly become part of discussions within the sector. It is one of the...
By Ed Schenkenberg One does not need to dig deep to find sub-standard humanitarian practice. When I visited three of Syria’s neighbouring countries as part of the recent real-time evaluation of...
AECID (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation) and DARA welcomed Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, to the first of three HardTalk dialogues...
Niger + 5 more
July 30, 2013 The ECOWAS Commission hosted a two-day Regional DRR Mapping Exercise on Transnational Disaster Threats on 16-17 April 2013. The exercise was facilitated by the FOREWARN Initiative...
In the run-up to its 10th anniversary in 2013, DARA spent much of 2012 taking stock and getting ready for the future. After five consecutive annual publications, we asked donors and others in the...
The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2nd Edition reveals that climate change has already held back global development and inaction is a leading global cause of death. Harm is most acute for poor and...